Radial Squeezed States and Rydberg Wave Packets

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1995-08-22

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9508019v1

Phys.Rev.A48:4047-4050,1993

Physics

Quantum Physics

published in Physical Review A

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.48.R4047

We outline an analytical framework for the treatment of radial Rydberg wave packets produced by short laser pulses in the absence of external electric and magnetic fields. Wave packets of this type are localized in the radial coordinates and have p-state angular distributions. We argue that they can be described by a particular analytical class of squeezed states, called radial squeezed states. For hydrogenic Rydberg atoms, we discuss the time evolution of the corresponding hydrogenic radial squeezed states. They are found to undergo decoherence and collapse, followed by fractional and full revivals. We also present their uncertainty product and uncertainty ratio as functions of time. Our results show that hydrogenic radial squeezed states provide a suitable analytical description of hydrogenic Rydberg atoms excited by short-pulsed laser fields.

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